Early last year, I decided that my tired old HP laptop wanted to retire, and I started shopping for a new one. However, before I could find a suitable replacement, I discovered the Asus Eee PC, and I knew that I had to have one.<\/p>\n
It did not make a lot of sense to buy a new laptop and<\/strong> a new Eee PC as well, so I held off buying a laptop. Over time, the Eee PC became my primary machine. Sometimes, I would plug in an external monitor and mouse and keyboard. And other times, I would just use it by itself. After a while, I migrated all of my old stuff off of the laptop and onto a mini- file server<\/a>, and I eventually left the tired old laptop powered off.<\/p>\n I started using the HP laptop again when I started working from home<\/a>, but I never really installed anything other than NX<\/a>. On a whim, I installed the latest Ubuntu, Jaunty Jackalope (9.04)<\/a>, and that really breathed new life into the tired old laptop.<\/p>\n So now I find myself strattling the fence, sometimes using the tired old (but rejuvinated) HP laptop, and sometimes using the Eee PC. Since I keep most of my important stuff<\/strong> on an encrypted<\/a> thumb drive, it was pretty easy to switch back and forth.<\/p>\n But there was one thing missing… my Firefox bookmarks.<\/p>\n I don’t like the idea of storing my stuff (tax records, email, bookmarks, or anything else) on a site like Google or xmarks (formerly foxmarks). So I went looking for a plug-in that would allow me to synchronize my bookmarks among multiple machines, but use my own server for storage.<\/p>\n